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A Pioneer for Change - Dr. Brittany Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I did it because of the implications of my scholarship around Black women, girls, my experience with social class and racial identity development, she says. Although she did not have extensive training in public health, she dove into research, finding books, articles, and speaking circuits to learn more. Thats the meat and potatoes.

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U.S. institutions offer scholarships to Ukrainian refugees

Inside Higher Ed

candidate—and became one of the many Ukrainian students currently benefiting from scholarships offered by U.S. institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St.

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Support community-to-independent-college transfer (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Further, most independent colleges offer a liberal arts education, which recent scholarship has indicated to be associated with increased well-being and participation in civic life as well as improved long-term financial outcomes. Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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Bard’s Innovative LGBTQ+ Studies Program Prepares Future Leaders

Insight Into Diversity

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., The college also provides a $20,000 annual Queer Leadership scholarship to qualifying students. Because [our college] already [has] existing programs, we don’t have to start from zero.” ● This article was published in our October 2023 issue.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting Olejniczak Is this diversity newsletter?:

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A clash of viewpoints at a struggling college

Inside Higher Ed

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college. Is this Career Advice newsletter?: